Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-10-07
West Virginia Notes.


Jacob Berger, leather dealer Of Wheel
ing, w. Va, has made an assignment.
Liabilities Sal ,5S5; assets estimated at
s54, 900.
Thieves entered the dwelling of County
Clerk T.tH. B. Dawson ut Berkeley
Springs last FriGay night and succeeded
in getting away with sll5 in cash and
check.
The pension bureau has information
that Geo. r. Fox, Albert Riddle and
Nelson Virgin have been indicted ut
Wheeling, w. Va. for violations of the
pension laws.
1t is not legal to shoot man because
he is stealing watermelons. A Dod-
bridge county man tried this on. and is
now out on $4,000 bail to appear for trial
for assault with intent to kill.
An order has been issued by the ka-
nawha County Court, the purport of
which is that new Jail is to be erected
in Charleston. on the front Of the pres
ent county lot, to cost $27, 900; to be
built by the Pauly Jail Company, OF
st. Louis.
Pensioners residing in the States of
West Virginia and Virginia have been
notified that on and after November lst,
all payments Of pensions TO them will
be made by the United States Pension
Agent at Washington instead of the
Agent at Knoxville, Tennessee.
The jury in the case Of Ann Offner,
charged with the murder of Benjamin
Brooks, at Romney. last week, disagreed
and were discharged. 1t is said that
ten were for clearing the prisoner and
two for conviction of voluntary man
slaughter. The prisoner will probably
have new trial at the February term
Of court.
One Of the laws most strictly enforced
and with the severest penalties attached
is the United States law regarding the
sending of obscene matter of any kind
through the United States mails. The
United States Grand Jury, which has
been in session at Wheeling this week,
has examined the matter and the result
was that w. F. Richards, editor of the
Telegram, is now under indictment for
sending obscene matter through the
mails. The penalty upon conviction is
imprisonment in the penitentiary.-
Clarksb,Ug Necs.
A strange tragedy occurred at Ron
ceverte, Greenbrier county, last week.
a weil-known lady Of that place having
been mysteriously killed, about mid
night Friday. The murdered woman
was Mrs. Louise Eldridge, the wife Of
John Eldridge. prominent citizen and
keeper Of restaurant in that town.
Mrs. Eldridgc had been assisting her hus-
band during the evening, and at mid
night as he was about to close up she
stepped to the door, attracted by noise
in the street. No sooner had she done
so than the crack Of a rifle was heard
and the woman tell to the floor with a
scream and at once expired. An exani-
nation showed that she had been shot
through the heart. the ball passing en-
tirely through her body. The motive
for the tragedy is mystery.
The skeletons of four human beings
were found recently in an old well on
what is known as the McCandless farm,
not far from the outskirts of the town Of
Point Pleasant, w. Va. A generation
or more ago the farm was the site of a
tavern much frequented by travellers
going up and down the river, and in
years prior to the war there were many
rumors afOat of men missing after hav-
ing put up at the old tavern for the
night. No evidence of criminal nature
could be found against the proprietor
of the place, and after living there
twenty years he went away, no one
knew where. The property has since
then changed hands, and a week or so
ago the proprietor set gang of men to
work to clean out well near where the
old tavern stood. At the bottom Of the
well the workmen came upon lot OF
bones, and these being taken to the sur
face and examined by physician, were
pronounced to he tie remains of four